Rheinpark Metropole, Cologne

Project Description

The premises of the Cologne Fair, dating from the 1970s, are being replaced by two intertwined building complexes. Since the outfacing walls and the tower are protected monuments, they will be renovated to subside as featuring elements of the overall premises.

Within the area of 160,000m2 gross floor area, 80,000m2 will be used as production and administration department headquarters for the Cologne broadcasting group RTL. The overall production area with the highest acoustical and climatical requirements is about 17,000m2. Beneath this are two television studios with 250m2 and 440m2, other production areas as MAZ, direction as well as editorial department and service areas. In Cologne’s Deutz quarter, which is situated on the right embankment of the Rhine with a direct view to Cologne Cathedral, the Rheinpark Metropole is being created.

Above and below ground level, the building totals 180,000m2. The parking garage is to contain 1200 units. The prospective conditioning for all offices is cooled with groundwater to save resources. Afterwards, the same ground water is fed back to refuel the cooling devices. Thus, the efficiency of the cooling facilities can be improved significantly, so as to require minimum electricity for the generation of cold.

Our Input

ZWP Ingenieur-AG is responsible for the general planning of building services, as well as flow simulation, dynamic simulation and daylight simulation.

Key Features

Planning of a large structured telecommunication and data network. Area-wide fire detecting observation and area-wide acoustic alerting. There’s a central interconnection for fire detecting observation and for the evacuation system based on fibre optic cable. Access control is planned with biometric distinguishing characteristics. The video control is based on full digital video surveillance (IP-Video).

Photo: © ZWP Ingenieur-AG (S. Böhl)

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